- Roland (Fictitious character : King), Fiction, Shapeshifting, Roland (fictitious character : king), fiction
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.)
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and resolved.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Stephen King
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si, Hodder & Stoughton, Heyne
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9789752115705
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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to A
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